"When I initially published the article, Boot Fedora Linux Faster, neither my server or me was ready for 22k visitors in one day. It seems that there is a great interest in the topic of reducing boot time. So I think a challenge is in order to get Linux people together to try to reduce boot time."

During the demo, the system crashed (this happened reasonably often on Alpha Micros), and without skipping a beat the vendor quipped "But look how fast it boots!" because they had special software to speed up the entire init process.